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From: Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900
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+[no author was given in the sources]
+ 
+This message is in response to your request for my METAFONT source code
+for the planetary symbols.  I thank you for your interest, and I hope
+that somebody out there may actually find these useful.
+ 
+The rest of this message contains:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item  command procedures to set up and run computer-modern METAFONT;
+\item  font drivers at 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and 5 pt;
+\item  source code for the symbols themselves;
+\item  a TeX file to define the symbols.
+ \end{itemize}
+ 
+ 
+The basic scheme is that one of the driver files (e.g. CMASTRO10.MF) is
+input to CMMF on the command line; it sets up values for the standard
+computer modern variables, then inputs SYMBOLS.MF.  This in turn defines
+more symbols, then inputs the source code for each character in turn.
+This is the same sort of scheme used by Knuth, particularly in the math
+fonts, from which all this was taken.
+ 
+You may find that the arrows for Uranus and Neptune are very slightly
+lopsided.  I haven't had the time to investigate this; you are welcome to,
+of course.
+ 
+[
+NOTE: the sources as they arrived were set up for a VMS site; I have
+created two Unix shell scripts (`dozero.sh' and `dohalf.sh') to stand
+in for the similar DCL scripts. Otherwise the files should be the same
+under any system.
+ 
+I have also provided a different use of the fonts in `astro.sty', a
+LaTeX style file which uses the fonts at magstep 4  (made by
+dofour.sh) as nice big pictures (see demo.tex).
+ 
+Sebastian Rahtz
+4-4-89
+]
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